On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:17 PM Julien Puydt wrote: > I have packaged a few mods for the minetest game these last years. > Recent minetest versions have a feature where you can download mods > directly online.
Where/how are the downloadable mods maintained? > (1) should I go on updating the existing packages? or ask for their > removal? orphan them? whatever? I would prefer they stay in Debian, because of the DFSG, apt signatures, package management, source packages etc. Caveat: I'm only an occasional user of minetest. > (2) should I go on packaging new things for minetest? As above, if you feel like it. > Do we have a policy for such situations? Not that I know of. In theory we could remove every package from Debian that is available in Flatpak, Snap, CPAN and other per-language package managers, guix/nix/etc, per-app downloaders and so on, but there are advantages to Debian's model of package management and development that I think we should preserve. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
